Lilli is becoming very strong willed. It used to be if she were playing with something, and we didn't want her to play with it, we could just replace the object with some other interesting object. It was pretty much all the same to her. Now, she knows the difference and if she has something we don't want her to have (perhaps because it is TOXIC or could POKE HER EYE OUT) it's not such an easy thing to pry it from her hot little hands. She'll put up QUITE the protest. For example, this afternoon I was drinking a juice from a bottle, and because she saw me drinking from it she wanted to drink from it too. So I emptied it and gave her the bottle for a bit while I was watching her. However, when it was time to take it away boy was she ever mad. And she wouldn't be appeased with something else either. Nope, she wasn't done with that bottle and she wanted it back.

And, for awhile now she's known that if she drops an item, it hasn't just disappeared. Now it's on the floor! The cute thing she's doing now though is that when she drops an item she'll kind of say "uh oh!" She might not actually enunciate those syllables, but she'll do the intonation of "uh oh." Some people think I'm making this up and hearing with the doting ear of a mother. But really! It really sounds like "uh oh!"

We also spent like fifty bucks on this enormous toy that is a huge block with all these different features. You put blocks in it and it plays music and spins around and on and on. What's so funny is that when the music comes on she gets so happy and does this little wiggly jig. That's worth the fifty bucks alone. Too bad the music is so freaking annoying though. Why is all baby music so obnoxious? Can't they invent some good baby music??? At least she likes it and I guess that's why it's for babies. . . :)